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As A Matter Of Fact, There's A Whole Lot Of Astral Weeks I Don't Even Want To Tell You About. Both Because
As a matter of fact, there's a whole lot of Astral Weeks I don't even want to tell you about. Both because whether you've heard it or not it wouldn't be fair for me to impose my interpretation of such lapidarily subjective imagery on you, and because in many cases I don't really know what he's talking about. he doesn't either: "I'm not surprised that people get different meanings out of my songs," he told a Rolling Stone interviewer. "But I don't wanna give the impression that I know what everything means 'cause I don't. . . . There are times when I'm mystified. I look at some of the stuff that comes out, y'know. And like, there it is and it feels right, but I can't say for sure what it means." There you go Starin' with a look of avarice Talking to Huddie Leadbetter Showin' pictures on the walls And whisperin' in the halls And pointin' a finger at me I haven't got the slightest idea what that "means," though on one level I'd like to approach it in a manner as indirect and evocative as the lyrics themselves. Because you're in trouble anyway when you sit yourself down to explicate just exactly what a mystical document, which is exactly what Astral Weeks is, means.
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mimmo jodice
I went to this amazing exhibition today with my friends ....
Mimmo Jodice's photography left us speachless!
I knew of him but how could I expect his photos being so good, so quites and so frightfuls at the same time??
"Umi sukoschi/ Niwa ni izumi no/ Ko no ma ka na"
Un tempio vicino a Osaka aveva una vista meravigliosa sul mare. Rikiy fece piantare due siepi che nascondevano completamente il paesaggio e vicino ad esse fece collocare una vaschetta di pietra. Solo quando un visitatore si nella vaschetta per prendere dell'acqua nel cavo delle mani, il suo sguardo incontrava lo spiraglio obliquo tra le due siepi, e gli si apriva la vista del mare sconfinato.
L'idea di Rikyu probabilmente era questa: chinandosi sulla vasca e vedendo la propria immagine rimpicciolita in quel limitato specchio d'acqua, l'uomo considerava la propria pochezza; poi, appena sollevava il viso per bere dalla mano lo coglieva il bagliore dell'immensità marina e acquistava coscienza d'essere parte dell'universo infinito. Ma sono cose che a volerle spiegare troppo si sciupano: a chi lo interrogava del perchè della siepe, Rikyu si limitava a citare i versi del poeta Sogi:
"Qui, un po' d'acqua.
Laggiù tra gli alberi
il mare!"
italo calvino - collezione di sabbia ( i mille giardini)
